President Donald Trump on Saturday warned Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., he can be “playing right into the hands of the Democrats” if he votes in opposition to Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill.”
“If Senator Rand Paul votes against our Great, Big, Beautiful Bill, he is voting for, along with the Radical Left Democrats, a 68% Tax Increase and, perhaps even more importantly, a first time ever default on U.S. Debt,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Saturday afternoon.
“Rand will be playing right into the hands of the Democrats, and the GREAT people of Kentucky will never forgive him! The GROWTH we are experiencing, plus some cost cutting later on, will solve ALL problems. America will be greater than ever before!”
Paul instructed “Fox News Sunday” ultimate weekend he helps the tax and spending cuts within the invoice, which he nonetheless slammed as “wimpy and anemic, but I still would support the bill, even with wimpy and anemic cuts if they weren’t going to explode the debt. The problem is the math doesn’t add up. They’re going to explode the debt by, the House says, $4 trillion. The Senate’s actually been talking about exploding the debt $5 trillion.”
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President Donald Trump on Saturday warned Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., he can be “playing right into the hands of the Democrats” if he votes in opposition to the president’s “Big, Beautiful Bill.” (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images; Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
The invoice narrowly handed the House May 22 and can quickly be voted on within the Senate, the place Republicans can simplest find the money for to lose 3 votes.
Others, like Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., have additionally expressed issues in regards to the invoice.
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Last weekend, Trump instructed journalists he used to be open to adjustments within the invoice.
“I want the Senate and the senators to make the changes they want,” he stated. “It will go back to the House, and we’ll see if we can get them. In some cases, the changes may be something I’d agree with, to be honest.”
Along with tax cuts, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act additionally contains stricter necessities for gaining access to Medicaid, adjustments to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) program and no taxes on time beyond regulation or guidelines.
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., talks with journalists within the U.S. Capitol after the House handed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act May 22. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc by means of Getty Images)
Democrats have slammed the Medicaid reform phase of the invoice, bringing up imaginable cuts as a riding factor forward of aggressive midterm elections in 2026.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO), a nonpartisan analyst for the U.S. Congress, estimates that 8.6 million other people within the United States will lose medical health insurance through 2034 in the course of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s Medicaid reform.
“The Democrats have been focusing on this specific line of attack that 13.7 million Americans are going to lose their health care, and that’s just blatantly false,” Rep. Erin Houchin, R-Ind., instructed Fox News Digital in an unique interview this week.
House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Republicans celebrated passing Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” previous this month. (Getty Images)
“Five million of those people are receiving a tax credit under the Affordable Care Act that was passed by the Democrats with a sunset date that was implemented by the Democrats. We’re simply allowing the sunset date to expire as the Democrats originally intended,” Houchin stated.
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CBO estimates that 13.7 million Americans will lose protection through 2034, which additionally contains the 5 million Americans who have been already about to lose protection. Plenty of Democrats have already deployed the determine in marketing campaign messages rejecting Trump’s invoice passing within the House.
“I don’t trust the CBO score, nor should the American people, because it’s been proven again and again to be wildly off,” added Houchin, who served on 3 primary committees main finances markup, together with the House Rules, Budget and Energy and Commerce committees.
Fox News’ Deirdre Heavey contributed to this file.
